[Mediawiki-l] problems with 'Variables' extension

[DanTMan]

Make sure that the MyVariables.php file starts with a <?php
And that the LocalSettings.php does *not* have a ?> at the end.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
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Derrick Farnell wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've tried posting about this problem on the extension's talk page, but to
> no avail.
>
> I'm using the 'Variables' extension:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables
>
> which creates the variable {{CURRENTUSER}}.
>
> When I simply insert all of the code provided into LocalSettings.php, it
> works fine. However, if, as suggested, I instead only insert the line:
>
> require_once( "$IP/extensions/MyVariables/MyVariables.php" );
>
> at the bottom of the LocalSettings.php file, and place the code in the file
> 'MyVariables.php' in the folder 'MyVariables' in the folder 'extensions',
> then it doesn't work - the layout of the wiki pages just becomes a bit
> broken-up and there are several lines of code superimposed along the top of
> every page.
>
> I've double-checked every step of the process and can't find any errors.
>
> Can anyone see why the extension would work the first way but not the
> second?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Derrick
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